Fastening-inserting machine



an. 2, 1940. P. BRAUNER 2,185,426

FASTENING- INSERTING MACHINE Filed Nov. 7, 1958 3 Sheets-Sheet.l

79 58 55 68 1 QJ T P. BRAUNER FASTENING- INSERTING MACHINE Filed Nov. 7, 195s s Sheets-Sheet 2 P. BRAUNER Jan. 2, 194% NSERTING MACHINE FASTENING-I Filed Nov. 7, 1958 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 AVl/E/V 70/? Patented Jan. 2, 194% giant FASTENING-INSERTING MACHINE Pincus Brannon, Haverhill, Mass assignor to United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Borough of Flemington, N. 3., a. corporation of New Jersey Application November 7, 1938, Serial No. 239,238

26 Claims.

This invention relates to apparatus by which such fastenings as nails are driven to secure together Work-parts. A field in which the invention is of particular utility is that of attaching heels to shoes.

The invention provides as one of its objects, a compact and efficient system for the actuation of the operating mechanisms of a fastening-inserting machine, such system being under the control of convenient and reliable means. In achieving this object, I combine with workpressing mechanism, as a shoe-supporting jack and a heel-engaging member, and with fastening-inserting mechanism co-operating with the pressing mechanism and which may consist of nail-drivers, fluid-pressure mechanism arranged to impart movement to both of these mechanisms, a treadle or other member for actuation by the operator, and a valve, preferably rotatable, movable by the member to control the action of the fluid-pressure mechanism. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the movement of the operator-actuated mem er first applies preliminary pressure to the Work and thereafter moves the valve to cause the fluid-pressure mechanism to efiect final pressure by the workpressing mechanism and the operation of the inserting mechanism. A single act on the part of the operator thus prepares the work for the power-operation or" the machine upon it and then, as a result of the actuation of the valve, completes such power-operation. The fluid pressure mechanism may include a unitary cylinder, with oppositely movable pistons connected to the work-pressing mechanism and to the inserting mechanism, so that when pressure is admitted to the cylinder by the Valve, the pistons respectively transmit power for the clamping of the Work and for the insertion of the fastenings. Each of the pistons may eiiect the movement of a cam to apply the power to one of the two mechanisms. Means is provided for varying the force exerted by one of the operating mechanisms, as that for pressing the work. For this purpose, the cam may be adjusted to alter its operating surface. The treadle, or like operatoractuated member, may have a shifting fulcrum, movement about one fulcrum producing initial relative movement between the work-clamping members, while movement about another fulcrum actuates the valve.

Another object of the invention is to associate with the relatively movable "work-support and co-operating pressure member of a fasteninginserting machine, a simple, positive and durable connecting device, which will hold such elements against their relative movement and which will transmit movement to them, the connecting effect remaining unchanged over long periods of use. To this end, I employ rotatable members, to one of which the relative movement between the support and pressure member is communicated, this connecting member being clutched to another. It is the pressure member which preferably is moved, and this causes the rotation of one of the connecting members, which is in the form of a clutch-section. With this, a second connecting member I or clutch-section co-cper-- ates, and there is means, as under the influence of fluid pressure, for locking the two sections together. This arrangement may, for example, be utilized to hold preliminary pressure upon jacked work. Then, rotation of the second section may cause the application or the final pressure to said work. This, as already indicated, may be by fluid-pressure mechanism. The specific connecting means which I have chosen to illustrate includes a rotatable drum; a co-operating rotatable disk, upon which clutch-arms are pivoted, and a fluid-pressure cylinder mounted upon the disk and containing pistons connected to the arms. A fluid-pressure cylinder acting through a piston and cam turns the disk.

In the accompanying drawings is shown one of the many forms which this invention may assume;

Fig. 1 being a broken side elevation .of my improved machine;

Fig. 2, a detail in rear elevation of the carrier-disk, with the clutch members and their actuating cylinder;

Fig. 3, an enlarged front elevation of the lower portion of the machine;

Fig. 4, a broken plan view of the treadle mechanism;

Fig. 5, an enlarged rear elevation of the lower portion of the machine, and

Fig. 6, an enlarged transverse section through the pressure-controlling valve.

Mounted upon a bracket iii projecting from the front of a frame-column i2 is a jack Hi, having its top arranged to receive the counter-portion of a shoe and support it with a heel upon its heel-seat for the attaching operation. Guided for vertical movement in the jack is a reciprocatory plunger I8, normally lowered by a surrounding expansion-spring Hi, this plunger acting at its upper extremity upon a. set of drivers 2i movable in passages in the jack-top. Nails carried points up upon these drivers will be inserted in the jacked Work upon the elevation of the plunger. To clamp the heel and shoe upon the jack to resist the displacing force'of the nails being driven, there is a. pressure-head 22 carrying an abutment 24 for engagement with the tread-surface of the heel and an abutment 26 for contact with the rear and lateral surfaces. The head is secured to a slide 28 guided for vertical movement at the front of the frame, so the pressure-abutments may be raised to permit the application of the work to the jack or lowered to clamp it for the attachment of the heel.

Arranged to oscillate in bearings at the front of the frame near the bottom is a short, horizontal shaft 30. Secured to the forward extremity of this shaft is a cam-sector 32 against which a roll 34, rotatable at the bottom of the plunger I8, is urged by the spring I9. The rear extremity of the shaft 30 has fast upon it an arm 38, which is joined by a link 48 to a piston 42 movable in a vertical cylinder 44. A spring 45, connecting the arm 38 to a relatively fixed point, elevates the piston 42 and holds the cam 32 in its normal position. An adjustable stop M for the arm limits its travel under the influence of the spring, the tension of which may be altered by a screw 43 to which one end is joined. The application of pressure to the cylinder for the actuation of the cam through an angle'determined by an adjustable stop 4i, and the consequent operation of the plunger and its drivers, will be described later.

Depending from the pressure-slide 28 is a link 46 connected at its lower extremity to a lever 48 fulcrumed upon a link 50 pivoted within the frame. A link 52, adjustable as to length, unites the lever 48 to a treadle 54. At the rear, the treadle is pivoted at 55 to a lever 56 fulcrumed at 58 at the bottom of the frame (Figs. 1 and 4) and united by a link 68 to an arm 82, which is fixed to a conical valve-plug 64 arranged to turn in a casing 66 mounted at the rear of the treadle. A spring 88, joining the arm 02 to a fixed point, normally holds the rear extremity of the lever 56 depressed against an adjustable stop 89 and the valve 64 in a definite angular position. Aspring I2 draws down one end of a lever I4 fulcrumed at the top of the frame, the opposite end of which lever is united at I8 to the slide 28, elevating this and the treadle 54. Depression of the treadle will, through the described connections, lower the head 22 to apply preliminary pressure to a shoe and heel upon the jack I4 and will rotate the valve. The extent of this valve-movement is determined by an adjustable treadle-stop l9.

Mounted to turn outside the shaft 30 is the hub 18 of a cylindrical casing or drum 80, furnishing one section of a clutch. Turning with this drum is a crank-pin 82, which also forms the connecting point of the link 46 from the pressure-slide to its actuating lever 48. At the forward side of the drum is a second clutchsection or disk 84, the hub 86 of which turns upon a portion of the frame in which the shaft 30 is journaled, this hub furnishing a bearing for the hub of the drum 80. Upon the inner face of the disk are pivoted at 88, 88, two segmental arms 88, 90 (Fig. 2). These are normally drawn inwardly by a spring 9i connecting them, but may be forced out into engagement withv the interior of the drum, co-operating therewith as clutch-shoes to secure the disk to it. To effect the expansion of the arms against the drum, the disk carries a cylinder 92 in which move. opposite pistons 94, 94, respectively articulated to the arms at the ends opposite their pivots. The application of pressure to the cylinder 92 is controlled by the valve 84. When it occurs, the arms are locked to the drum, the two clutchsections being thus connected to hold upon the jacked work preliminary pressure, which has been applied by the operator through the treadle 54.

For the application of final pressure to hold the heel firmly upon the heel-seat of the jacked shoe for the insertion of the attaching nails by the drivers 20, the upper portion of the cylinder 44, or that opposite the piston 42, contains a piston I00, from which projects upwardly a rod I02 carrying a rotatable roll I04. Fulcrumed upon the cylinder is a lever I08, one arm of which bears upon the roll, while the other arm is united by a link I08 to-an arm IIO secured to a horizontal spindle IE2 rotatable in the frame. To the opposite extremity of the spindle is fixed a cam-arm II4, against a surface II6 upon which bears a roll II8 rotatable upon an extension I20 from the clutch-disk 84. A spring II5 joining the disk-extension I20 to a downward extension of the arm II4, holds the roll II8 in engagement with the surface II6 and the piston I00 lowered. When pressure is applied within the cylinder 44, the elevation of the piston I00 will swing the cam-arm H4 in a counterclockwise direction, as viewed in Fig. 5, and by its action upon the roll II8 turns the clutch-disk 84 in the same direction. This rotates the drum 80, locked to the disk by the arms 90 under the influence of pressure in the cylinder 92, and causes the application to the jacked work of clamping pressure. The force exerted may be varied by adjusting the normal position of the surface H6. Upon the main section II4 of the cam-arm, a secondary section H1 is pivoted. This is variably fixed as to its angular relation on the main section by a slot-and-screw connection II 9. The extent to which the disk 84 and the locked drum are turned and the leverage exerted is correspondingly altered.

The force to be exerted through the cylinders 44 and 92 under the control of the valve 64 may be supplied by a fiuid, preferably in the form of a liquid, such as oil, circulated under pressure by a pump IZI from a tank I22. This pressuresystem is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The pump, preferably of the rotary type and driven through a power-shaft I24, draws the liquid from the tank through a pipe i25 and delivers it by a pipe I28 to the valve casing 66. From the casing, a pipe I 30 leads to the center of the cylinder 92, while a pipe I32 connects to the center of the cylinder 44. The exhaust is returned to the tank from the casing 66 through a pipe I34. Normally, as will be seen in Fig. 6, the valve 84 closes the supply-pipe I28 and connects both the pipes I30 and I32 of the cylinders 92 and 44, respectively, to the exhaustpipe 534. This releases the pistons in these cylinders and permits the drivers 20 to be lowered by the spring I9. The drum 8!] is freed by the clutch-arms 90, so the pressurehead 28 may be raised from the jack I4 by the spring I2. pression of the treadle 54, pressure is first supplied to the cylinder 92 to lock the head 28 in the position to which it has been carried by the treadle, and immediately thereafter, the cylinder 44 receives pressure to apply the clamping force to the work through the piston I00 and to act Then, as the valve is rotated by deupon the piston 42 to elevate the drivers 20 and insert the nails. When the treadle is released, and the valve 64 returned to its initial position by the spring (58, the connection of the pipe [32,

and therefore the cylinder i l, is shifted from the supply pipe 28 to the exhaust-pipe I 34, so final pressure will be removed from the work, and the drivers lowered. Then, the pipe I36 of the cylinder Q2 will be united to the exhaustppe to release the lock upon the pressure-head applied by the clutch mechanism. In the normal position of the valve, the pressure created by the pump may be by-passed back to the exhaust side through a pipe MB, in which is a zelief-valve M2.

In t use of the machine, the operator sup plies N to the jack-passages in which the drivers 25 reciprocate, a shoe S places upon its heel'seat a heel I-l. Depressing the trcadle M about itspvotal connection at 55 to the lever 58 a fulcrum, he brings the abutments and 2t or the pressure-head 22 into engagement with the heel. At this time. if neces sary, the work-portions may be adjusted upon tic jack. Preliminary pressure having thus been applied, a further depression of the treadle transfers its fulcrum to the link 52, held against downward movement by the contact of the abutments with the heel. UThe spring 68, which has held the rear extremity of the lever against upward movement, now yields, so said lever swings up about its fulcrum it, raising the link til and turning the valve i clockwise, viewed in Fl," .1, In the movement of the valve, the pipe H33 livers pressure from the piunp 1.2L which at once put in cormminication with pipe 538. This acts upon the pistons 9t, in the cylinder 5'12. forcing these apart to urge the clutch-arms Elli against the interior of the drum til. Since the dish il is held against rotation by en ment with cam-arm il -l, ill of the roll till, the pressure-head is thereby locked against upward movement in the position to which it has been lowered by the ,treadle. In the continuing rotation of the valve, the supply-pipe 5Z8 joined to the pipe 32 of the cylinder M. This causes the p ton Hill to be elevated and. through the intermediate connections. swing: l.. cam-arm against the roll Hi3, rotating the disk ..nticlockwise 5). As the drum 8b is clutched to the the just described, this drum is similarly rotated and, through the rod 35, lowers the head 2". to additional and final pressure upon the work. The fluid admitted to the cylinder M also f rces down the piston this mcvcmcnt being delay d by the degree of tension applied to the spring 15. turns the Elli of the 32, cl vating the plunger ill in the jack i l and caus n" the drivers 25? to ins rt the nai s throu h thheel-seat of the intn the bee travel of the drivers may include some lost motion before the points the ails t e insole. The operator releases the treadle, the 68 turning the valve (it anticlockwise (Fir-r. 1), cutting oil the fluid-supply pipe are from the pipe Hill of c lind r 5%?! and the pipe m of cyl nder is and joining these to the exhaust-pipe l3 i. This permits the spring to lower the drivers. the spring th to restore the driver-cam to its initial position, and spring "it? to re." the abutments 2 3 and 25 frcin the wcrl: the treadle.

succeeding operation. It will be that the clutch mechanism for holding preliminary pressure and applying final pressure iseiitrernely simple, with limited contact-suriaces which are readily kept in proper operating condition, yet give reliable engagement under the influence of efficient actuating means.

Having described. my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, mechanism movable in co operation therewith to engage fastenings and insert them in the work, fluid-pressure mechanism arranged to impart movement to both the work-pressing mechanism and the inserting mechanism, a member for actuation by the operator, and a valve movable by said member to control the action of the fluid-pressure mechanism. i

2. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, fluid-pressure mechanism arranged to impart movement to both the work-pressing mechanism and the inserting mechanism, a member for actuation by the operator to apply preliminary pressure to the work, and a valve movable by said member to produce through the fluid-pressure mechanism th application of final pressure by the-work-pressing mechanism and the operation of the inserting mechanism.

3. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-supporting jack, fastening-drivers movable therein, a heel-engaging member movable toward and from the a; treadle by which there may be imparted to the heel-engaging member a portion of its movement, fluid-pressure mechanism arranged to further actuate the heel-engaging member and to also actuate the drivers, and a valve operable by the treadle to control the application of fluid pressure to said mechanism.

4. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-supporting jack, fastening-drivers movable therein, a heel-engaging member movable toward and from the a treadle having a fulcrum about which it move to apply pressure to the work through the heel-engaging member and a second fulcrum about which it may move. fluid-pressure mechanism arranged to actuate heel-engaging member and the drivers. a valve rotatable by the movement of the'treadle about its second fulcrumto control the application of fluid pressure to said.- mechanism.

5. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fasteningdnserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, a cylinder, pistons movable oppositely in. the cylinder and connected respectively to the workpressing mechanism and to the inserting mechanism, and means fer supplying fluid pressure to the cylinder between the one.

6. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, a cylinder, pistons movable oppositely in the cylinder and connected respectively to the worl press ing mechanism and to the inserting mechanism, means for supplyingfiuid pres ire to the cylinder between the pistons, and me. i arranged to vary the force applied by one of the pistons.

7. In a fastening-inserting machine, a movable work-pressing member, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in ec-operation therewith, a cylinder, pistons movable oppositely in the cylinder and connected to the work-pressing member l to control the supply of pressure to the cylinder.

8. In a fasteninginserting machine, a work support, a pressure member co-operating therewith, said support and member being initially relatively movable by the operator, fluid-pressure means for imparting additional relative movement to the support and member, a valve for controlling the fluid pressure, and a lever having a shifting fulcrum, said lever being movable about one fulcrum to produce the initial relative movement and about another fulcrum to actuate the valve,

9. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-supporting jack, fastening-drivers movable therein, a heel-engaging member movable toward and from the jack, a cylinder, pistons movable oppositely in the cylinder and acting respectively upon the drivers and the heel-engaging member, a treadle by which the heel-engaging member may be moved, and a valve operable by movement of the treadle to control the supply of fluid pressure to the cylinder between the pistons.

10. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, fluid-pressure mechanism, and earns actuated by the fluid-pressure mechanism to impart movement respectively to the work-pressing mechanism and to the inserting mechanism.

11. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, fluid-pressure mechanism, a cam actuated by the fluid-pressure mechanism to impart movement to the work-pressing mechanism, and means arranged to vary the operating surface of the cam.

12. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, fluid-pressure mechanism, a cam actuated by the 1 fluid-pressure mechanism and formed in relatively movable sections, one of which operates the work-pressing mechanism, and means arranged to secure such operating section. in different positions upon the companion section.

13. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, fluid-pressure mechanism, cams actuated by the fluid-pressure mechanism to impart movement respectively to the work pressing mechanism and to the inserting mechanism, and means arranged to vary the operating surface of one of the cams.

14. In a fastening-inserting machine, movable work-pressing mechanism, fastening-inserting mechanism movable in co-operation therewith, a cylinder, two pistons movable oppositely in the cylinder, and two cams actuated by the respective pistons to impart movementv to the workpressing mechanism and to the inserting mechanism. 2

15. In a fastening-inserting machine, a worksupport, a pressure member co-operating therewith, means for moving the support and pressure member relatively, a rotatable connecting member to which such'movement is communicated, a second rotatable connecting member co-operating with the first, and means for clutching the connecting members together to hold the support and pressure member against relative movement.

16. In a fastening-inserting machine, a worksupport, a pressure member co-operating therewith, means for moving the support and pressure member relatively, a rotatable connecting member to which such movement is communicated, a second rotatable connecting member co-operating with the first, means for rotating the second connecting member, and means for coupling the two connecting members to turn together.

1'7. In a fastening-inserting machine, a worksupport, a pressure member movable in cooperation therewith, a clutch-section rotatable in the movement of the pressure member, a rotatable clutch-section co-operating therewith, means for rotating the second clutch-section, and means for clutching the two sections together.

18. In a fastening-inserting machine, a worksupport, a pressure member co-operating therewith, means for moving the support and pressure member relatively, a connecting member to which such movement is communicated, a second connecting member co-operating with the first, fluid-pressure means for moving the second connecting member, and fluid-pressure means for compelling the two connecting sections to.

move together.

19. In a fastening-inserting machine, a worksupport, a pressure member cc-operating therewith, mean for moving the support and pressure member relatively, a rotatable connecting member to which such movement is communicated, a second rotatable connecting member co-operating with the first, means for rotating the second connecting member, and fluid-pressure means for compelling the two connecting members to turn together. I

20. In a fastening-inserting machine, a worksupport, a pressure member co-operating therewith, means for moving the support and pressure member relatively, a rotatable connecting member to which such movement is communicated, a second rotatable connecting member co-operating with the first, fluid-pressure means for rotating the second connecting member, and means for compelling the two connecting members to turn together.

21. In a heel-attaching machine, a jack, drivers movable therein, a pressure-head movable toward and from the jack, two rotatable clutch members, one of which is connected to the head, means for controlling the rotation of the other member, and means for clutching the members together.

22. In a heel-attaching machine, a jack, drivers movable therein, a pressure-head movable toward and from the jack, two rotatable clutch members, one of which is connected to the head, means for controlling the rotation of tlie other member, and fluid-pressure means mounted upon one of the members for clutching the members together.

23. In a heel-attaching machine, a jack, drivers movable therein, a pressure-head movable toward and from the jack, .two rotatable clutch members, one of which is connected to the head, fluid-pressure means for rotating the other member, and fluid-pressure means for clutching said members together.

24. In a heel-attaching machine, a jack, drivers movable therein, a pressure-head movable toward and from the jack, a drum rotatable in the movement of the pressure-head, a rotatable disk co-operating with the drum, clutch-arms pivoted upon the disk for engagement with the drum, a fluid-pressure-oylinder mounted upon 26. In a heel-attaching machine, a jack, drivers movable therein, a pressure-head movable toward and from the jack, a drum rotatable in th movement of the pressure-head, a rotatable disk oo-operating with the drum, clutch-arms pivoted upon the disk for engagement with the chem, a fini .--pressu1'e-cy1inder mounted upon the disk, pistons movable in the cylinder and connected to the arms, a cam acting upon the a fiuid-pressure-cylinder, and a piston mov- 1n able in the cylinder and connected to the cam. PINCUS BRAUNER. 

